'' Submarine Raider'' is a 1942 American war film directed by Lew Landers and starring

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was working as an assistant director at

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, notably to

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on ''The More the Merrier''.

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took a liking to Boetticher and got him to direct the last two days of filming. Boetticher said it was a 12-day picture and recalled "my God, I studied! I prepared every angle, I went over the script line by line, I prepared for those two days as if I were directing ''Gone With the Wind'', because I didn't have any talent for it." Boetticher called Landers "a no-talent guy. They called him the "D" director there at Columbia; he just wasn't any good. Whenever they had a picture they didn't really care about, they'd give it to Landers." He later performed a similar task on ''

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'' (1944).

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